How Wiz Uses Dataminr to Safeguard Traveling Employees

With a global presence and remote workforce, Wiz faces the demanding task of ensuring the safety of hundreds of employees traveling daily across diverse locations. Recognizing the unique challenges faced by traveling employees, including geopolitical tensions, severe weather, Wiz moved from a reactive travel security approach to a proactive risk management strategy.

About Wiz:

• Israeli-American cloud security software company
• Founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York City
• Used by 50% of Fortune 100 companies

During a recent Dataminr webinar, Ernie Martin, Wiz Head of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, discussed how Dataminr Pulse for Corporate Security helps the organization stay ahead of security incidents and minimize their impact to improve the safety of its employees. 

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Proactive Risk Management and Increased Duty of Care

Growing geopolitical tensions, severe weather, terrorism, and public disruptions are just a few of the threats facing business travelers around the world. According to Martin, many organizations, including Wiz, have realized they now have a heightened duty of care for traveling employees amid today’s risk landscape. 

To boost employee travel protection, businesses are “moving away from a reactive travel security program to a proactive risk management program,” including the use of real-time risk intelligence platforms like Dataminr, said Martin. 

“Dataminr gives the team tangible information to make decisions very quickly, so that we can provide duty of care for employees who are traveling and may not know of situations occurring in the city they’re traveling to,” said Martin. “Dataminr is really a key resource for our program—including how we assess threats and manage incidents.”

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Improved Efficiency With Dataminr’s End-to-end Solution

When Martin and his team were assessing several AI and real-time intelligence platforms, they wanted an “all-in-one solution” that would let them detect threats and manage incidents from end to end. 

“I wanted to be able to customize and receive real-time alerts of threats that could potentially impact our business and employee base,” said Martin. 

In addition, the team needed a solution that could act as an “emergency notification system” for contacting traveling employees. It also had to seamlessly integrate with Wiz’s existing technology, bringing all traveler data into one centralized, user-friendly platform.

“Dataminr has been just super helpful in satisfying all those requirements that we had,” said Martin. “Having a single pane of glass view allows our team to not only leverage the real-time alerts, but also reach out to potentially impacted employees—all in one place. We can even review past events on a later date if we need to create any post-action incident report.”

By consolidating information and tasks into one platform, Martin’s team is able to streamline its workflow—while improving the precision and effectiveness of its responses to emergencies.

Read More: How Dataminr Helps Businesses Mitigate Risks With an End-to-End Solution

The Value of Dataminr’s Real-time Hyperlocal Alerts

As a remote business, Wiz has hundreds of employees traveling everyday, according to Martin. Dataminr delivers AI-powered hyperlocal, real-time intelligence that is aligned directly with travelers’ itineraries, enabling Martin and his team to maintain full visibility into travelers’ proximity to security incidents. This helps the team facilitate faster responses to local risks, events, and threats.

“We have the ability to create incident watchlists based specifically on travelers’ itineraries and receive alerts when an event happens in proximity to them,” said Martin. “The alerting radius can also be customized for each travel itinerary, allowing us to stay abreast of risks at multiple locations, such as airports, hotels, and train stations.”

For instance, during the events surrounding the October 7, 2023 crisis in the Middle East, Dataminr delivered timely insights to Martin’s team, enabling it to:

• Monitor escalating geopolitical complications and emerging local threats in real time
• Track airline cancellations, governmental actions, and critical cyber attacks targeting regional businesses
• Gain the clarity needed to adjust operations and provide immediate support to impacted employees

This level of real-time intelligence empowered Wiz to make informed decisions and maintain operational continuity under rapidly changing circumstances. 

Wiz’s partnership with Dataminr highlights how a proactive approach and cutting-edge AI technology can transform travel risk management. According to Martin, not only does Dataminr equip Wiz with the capabilities to safeguard traveling employees wherever they are, it also helps his team “instill a sense of security within the company’s employees” as they know their well-being and safety are prioritized.

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